The couple met in Lake Placid two decades ago and came back up for the memories.

Dawn Becket and her daughters Venessa, 10, and Nina, 8, of Wayne, Pa., were vacationing with their grandparents in Lake Placid.

"We visited the (Saranac Lake) Ice Palace, we went skating on Mirror Lake, and tomorrow we plan to go snowmobiling," Dawn Becket said.

Becket and her daughters climbed up to the top of the toboggan chute for their first slide down.

"That was really fun," she said. "It was fast."

The tobbogan chute is a 30-foot high, converted ski jump trestle. It can send people as far as 1,000 feet across Mirror Lake.

The toboggan chute runs from noon to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Zack Clark, a toboggan chute operator, said they're hard at work trying to keep up with vacationers visiting. He said the reason they could open the toboggan chute sooner than normal this season was because the ice froze over earlier.

The crew began preparing the toboggan chute around the New Year. They packed ice into the track and then sprayed it with water from a garden hose.

"We opened in January, but then there was a warm spell and the track had to be rebuilt." Clark said. "It's been very busy, especially weekends and nights. We expect it be crazy busy this weekend with President's weekend."